Looking on good morning, Good morning, good morning, I welcome you the
lesson of the day. We are to less than one hundred and thirty four.
Let's remind ourselves and say, together, let me perceive forgiveness as it
is. Let me see forgiveness as it is. And the idea of forgiveness
definitely is one of the most cherished ideas through this course in miracles. And
of course the more we look at that, we can immediately see that it
is because I didn't remember correctly how to forgive and what forgiveness means, that
I first of all needed a course in miracles. It is because in Miracleus
will which will provide me the ability to see forgiveness in a true sense.
And we will look at that before we start out with the text of the
lesson, as Jesus Christ is giving it to us now, just as a
reminder from where we are coming on the one hundred thirty four stay in those
different sequences as I call it, or series of twenty lessons or the first
ones where fifty lessons. And already in the first fifty lessons we were at
the idea that God is the love in which I forgive. It set the
space completely clearly, actually in what energy we accomplish that action of mind and
come to that experience of where we directed to and leading to to oneness,
right to oneness of mind, to oneeness of self. So it is the
love of God where this is occurring, and not in my own little human
mind I'm carrying around for over ten thousand years and pretend as if I would
forgive but in truth holding grievances, or I would not be here. You
know, that is an admission I have to make every day, every moment
if I really want to get out of this place today. And now I
cannot come in here and say, well, I have solved my problem because
I've read enough of ideas about forgiveness that and you're laughing, but that's still
not enough. You know, it is an experience. It has to be
a recognition of how he says it in the you know, there's a whole
sequence then in the second part where it is about acquisition of that true knowledge
and of that through perception, and he says in that introduction of the Lessons
one twenty one to one thirty, you know that forgiveness is to recognize that
what my rather did to me seemingly did to me what I perceived, what
I observed right, hasn't happened or has not occurred, he says. And
then there comes a sentence which really sums up what we will review and practice
into today's lessons. He says. Then it doesn't baden sense, It does
not baden sense and make them real. It sees there was no sin.
It sees and recognizes there was no sin. Now, of course, that
already would need a new understanding of what sin means. And we know from
from the teachings of the master teacher of Jesus' mind himself, that we're talking
here about an archery term in Aramaic kata called which means of the mark right.
Like a guy who is shooting his error to the target and he misses
the target. I obviously have missed the target to go home, I obviously
have missed the target to recognize my true self in you. And therefore I've
been given a second chance to practice forgiveness. And that second chance is offered
me every moment through everything, no matter if it is a very painful conflict
or experience, or it is a very loving and seeming happily occurrent it's the
same opportunity to recognize that actually none of this has occurred, which means I
have not occurred on time space and nobody really wants to admit that, but
it is true. It is true. And then we have proceeded in the
second sequence of the sixties most like forgiveness is my function the light of the
world, for example sixty two, and let me not forget my function.
And already many many of these lessons have directed us, and even giving and
receiving, we recognized we are actually talking about that action and that idea of
forgiving, and we started this sequence of the one hundred twenty one to one
hundred forty is forgiveness is the key to happiness, and forgiveness offers me everything
I want and more right so welcome in another idea of really now, kind
of looking to a reason, never on a reasonable lever that forgiveness has to
be something else than what we were carying with our as an understanding of how
he calls it. Here also badening, badening in with an idea of still
holding sin real or maintaining things sin. Yeah. See. Sometimes, of
course we are so involved with with that connection and communication with God we completely
forget, and for goodness sake, we forget. We forget from where we
are coming from, from which mindset we are coming from. And at certain
points when he makes that differentiation and leads us to dru forgiveness, it's good
to remember again that I'm actually coming from an eye for an eye and the
dooce for it those. Okay, That's where I'm coming from. You have
done this to me, you son of it be, and I'm gonna get
even with you and will show you. You know, that's the human condition.
We're coming from complete separation and from a complete determination to maintain the separation,
now just with a little you know, like maintained in a cloak of
spirituality, you know, because now I've accumulated a little bit of some magical
tricks. You know. You know, we all know it, you know,
the longer we are actually being with Jesus, And in this course we
know it perfectly well when in moments of devastation that are completely unnecessary, but
we know it in those moments that we haven't accomplished anything in time space unless
there's a full integration of ourselves. That means all thoughts that are ever made
up and fabricated in my human conceptual mind as myself, and let it stand.
They are representing it my word which I used. The Light and love
of Heaven needs now to be integrated in a sense of I have to take
them with me back home in heaven. The Drusies, they are already back
in heaven. The Drusies, they never were anything except the light in its
entirety. There were never anything in its limited demonstration of bodies and images of
the world. Never ever nothing. He calls it clearly in the cause meaninglessness,
he calls it. And that's why forgiveness is that practice and that action
to look through, literally looking through with the power of mind through what I
made up, yeah, as illusionary imaituary thought form. And you know,
I can choose if I want to have a great experience and enjoy myself in
that or if I think that this is kind of sacrificial practice. And but
you know, we don't want to be ridiculous at this point. The best
is to get over myself, right, which means to let it go whatever
it is, you know, and remember what is really present and can really
be seen here and now. And that is a full acknowledgment that what I
see here as form association is not there at all, cannot be seen at
all, And you know the moment I need that regularly in my daily practice
and my daily affairs. You know, it goes in my mind more like
this, Am I doing here something that that I would feel that there's something
quote real going on? Would that would have again some effects on me and
my remembrance. I'm actually not doing here anything, no matter what it is.
Right now, I'm not doing anything. My mind is just open in
that communication with his mind listening actually to a voice that has no correspondence to
the world whatsoever. And that's not the doing. And therefore, you know,
there comes a relaxation in you know, if I remember I'm not doing
anything here, I also remember I'm not here at all as a limited form
of mind. And that's a deeper relaxation into what is present here, which
is the love of God, which is the peace of God. And this
is a ah, it is nothing else than that God. Am I great
for it? And I don't need to do that. And I heard that
in one of your demonstrations to Eric, thank you so much of being here.
Now this is a really yes, Oh, this is good. You
know this is good that I'm not really doing anything here. And I think
that's the only reason why we put music in between between the talk, and
it's just a reminding me I'm actually not really doing anything here, all right,
and let's just put some music in here. I have here. I
have no idea, but Viennese sounds is good for me as a bords Cai.
So up, stick, sun stick, stay, thank you so much.
Those are the words sounds of Johann Strauss, one of my contemporaries of
the last century. A reel. You look very content well after a meal
at the milk pow of Aerica, could it not be? That's a state
of forgiveness right there. And you know, like what just came in my
mind listening to these words or say is because that practice is not, you
know, not for the first time. I'm trying to practice coming to that
reconnection with God. But this time it is different in the sense of Jesus
Christ forces me literally under quotes to admit that I'm the cause of what I
see, no matter if I say or if I determine I'm right, Because
I might be even right right in the appearance, but I'm still wrong in
truth right, because being right and defending to be right is by itself in
itself, a state of separation. And I'm just starting out the lesson with
the last sentence. I'm supposed to carry along all through the day, and
I will try to remember this one sentence the best I can throughout today.
No one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter heaven by himself.
No one is crucified alone, and yet no one can enter Heaven can
go home by himself. That shows me that it needs an action of mind,
that shows me the unification of myself, that I split up and fragmented,
right, because if anyone is crucified, it will be me, and
it needs my remembrance as an action of forgiveness that this has not occurred,
right, or isn't there at all. And on the other hand, no
one I cannot ender heaven by myself means I have to take you with me.
I have to take all of my thoughts with me in that experience of
going home, And that I think makes all the difference. And that's why
at some point we say we have no words anymore, or words cannot really
talk about what we what we are teaching here it does go beyond the words,
and so Jesus just gives us a framework of words so that we can
enter into that experience without defense. And it is quite an interesting section of
those now in the one thirties that we were just for a couple of days
really looking at. Okay, I will not value what is valueless, and
the word is actually offering me my own valuelessness. And now I say no,
thank you, you know, and really go beyond this world. That
shows me the real world and my real connection with God. And now from
today's lesson on let me perceive forgiveness as it is tomorrow, we will be
very clearly directed to if I defend myself, I'm attacked, you know.
And that's a simultaneous action. When I've one thirty six says, it talks
about sickness because a mind in defense in separation is sick that's only sickness in
the mind. Sickness is a defense against the truss. And from there it
goes into healing again and shows us when I'm healed, I'm not healed alone
and heaven one thirty eight is that decision I must make and I will accept
at one month for myself. You know, it's like quite interestingly set up.
It's the longest lessons of the entire workbook which we are proceeding into.
All right, so lessen one thirty four because we have also twice a day,
two practice periods of each fifteen minutes, and we are already in truth
in that practice. Now, if you'll really look at your mind, you
are already in that clear view and openness of mind of acknowledging. Okay,
there is actually no word here. Let us review the meaning of forgive.
Right, there's a meaning of forgive. Let us review that meaning of forgive,
for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something that
entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous rough, a gift unjustified and undie served,
and the complete denial of the truth. Well I kind of sumped it up
with an eye for an eye and the tooth for those. Yeah, but
it is there are always the justification, and you see it, no matter
what point of view, any path of political party or world view is taking,
it is always set in separation. There's always the enemy out there.
There's always the evil out there that needs to be fought and overcome, you
know, and extinguished. By you know, as if there would be a
solution by annihilating a bad of my own mind that is actually nothing. Yeah,
in such a view, forgiveness must be seen as mere. He calls
it an eccentric folly, and this caused a bear to rest salvation on a
whim. He calls it again, this is a twisted view. This twisted
view of what forgiveness means is easily corrected. Did you hear that it is
easily corrected when you can accept the fact that now he uses the word baden
but is not asked for what is true? Well, butadened and badening in
English, I looked it up, can be used in quite different ways,
you know. And you can use it in a way also of an understanding
of forgiveness and of a true action of forgiveness. But in the world it
is mostly understood you are badoned because you were seventy years in jail and now
you're going to be released, So you're badoned of the sentence that you were
suffering, or you I badon you. Well, if I don't understand what
you said, what do I say? Beg your butdon it's also a kind
of I'm excusing myself for not being completely aligned. And actually I would let
you in the repetition, let you show me what the true meaning of our
coming together is. That is actually quite an interesting perspective. But you know
I'm immediately offering another chance for that alignment. It must be limited to what
this falls. It is irrelevant to everything except delusions. Truth is God's creation,
and to Baden that is meaningless. Right you heard that truth is God's
creation and to Baden that is meaningless. Or truth belongs to him, belongs
to God, reflects his laws, and radiates his love. Any questions about
that, I think it speaks for itself. It's pretty clear. Right does
this need How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign? Well, it's
obvious again this does not baden. I only need baden or forgiveness, because
obviously I have replaced the memory of truths with my meanings of illusions and believe
illusions have a reality or a real effect on me, which would make sin
real. Instead of understanding, this is just a thought of the mark right
of the target of truths. Next paragraph. The major difficulty that you find
in genuine forgiveness on your bad is he says you still believe you must forgive
the truth and not illusions. Interesting, there's actually a concept in my mind
that believes I must forgive the truth and not illusions, which indicates also there
must be a sense of guilt in the mind. You conceive of Baden as
a vain attempt to look past what is there, to overlook the truth in
an unfounded effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true. This twisted viewpoint
but reflects the hold that the idea of sin retains as yet upon your mind
as you regard yourself. Next sentence, again, he says, you think
your sins are real because you think your sins are real, because you still
believe you think your sins are real. You look on Baden as deception,
for it is impossible you think of sin as true and not believe forgiveness is
a lie? Does is forgiveness? Really? But the sin, like all
the rest, see, that is now a very valuable reasonable idea. Yeah,
the moment I can understand that I'm actually not understanding that sin is off
the mark and now needs the correction, He tells me, you actually put
it on the same level. It's the same to you. You really think
it is nothing else than another thin, same category. Yeah, it says
the truth is false and smiles on the corrupt as if they were as blameless
as the grass, as white as snow. It is delusional in what it
thinks it can accomplish. It would see as right, the plainly wrong,
the low sum as the good. So are really incredible expressions of showing me
how twisted and that has been dealt with in the human conceptual mind. Baden
is no escape in such a view. It merely is a further sign that
sin is unforgivable at best. To be concealed, denied, or called another
name for baden is a treachery for truth. And you know, like just
look at the word and what you see and what information you get, because
that is your mind, you know. And whenever there is the expression of
bardening, someone still on the basis that guilt is justified and is intact.
You know, while I'm gonna bardon you, you know, or I'm the
judge or I'm just your friend, I'm gonna barden you. But you will
still suffer of the sin you committed. You will still receive the just punishment
that you deserve. That is how the world thinks about forgiveness. You know,
that is kind of well, we bandon you because the law is,
you know, you were seventy years in jail anyway or no matter. You
know, well, at some point I recognize that it doesn't it's that doesn't
feel so good to hold on on the grievance anymore. You know, I
have all you know, there's already all over cancer and whatever sickness in the
expression. You know, I might just band you, right, but you
still deserve the punishment. And you know from whom from where the punishment is
supposed to come, God is going to be used to punish you. That
that's how they're taching it in the established religions. You know. That's why
I'm so grateful for this cause in mirracle, because it just cuts it all
off, you know, saying if you think like this, you know,
let's go for the correction right now. That's my gratitude to this lesson because
it shows me very clearly how that has to occur, that correction in my
mind, because I'm coming from that mindset. Of course, here it is
guilt cannot be forgiven. You know, if you sin, your guilt is
ever lasting and that's really the definition of sin, and sin is like said,
it's fixed. You know. It's like so a definition of yourself fixed.
You cannot escape, and therefore the only escape could only be what that.
Of course, that's what the ego teaches and puts up there. You
know, you could only temporarily escape through this, and that's all the ego
wants that you. You're supposed to believe, not anymore. Thank you,
thank you, thanks for being here. And those who are forgiven from the
view their sins are real are pitifully mocked and twice contempt first by themselves for
what they think they did, and once again by those who butaden them.
Yeah, because that badening is not a true experience of release or forgiveness,
of joining of oneness. What do I need for that? Tell me a
holy instant? We need a holy instant I have to offer to myself a
holy instant. That's in the holy instant, the union of mind, the
oneness of mind is recognized the first time in that human that are a human
state of mind that I really consciously realized a holy instant. You know,
I was just crying like a baby, you know, because I immediately I
felt, oh my God, this is all just me, you know,
and and it's really true that it's what I was reading it that I'm just
doing it to myself, you know, you know, to feel our one
self and the pain that we left out there in that seeming reflection of our
of our own self in the world, you know, comes back and is
felt and unifies with our own self and mind. And that is what the
Holy instant offers, and that is released and that is what we right now
experience, isn't it for thank thank yeah, And we see immediately there's only
light in the mind, you know, incredible light, incredible light. Thank
you, and thank you for that opportunity to practice that. And I'm like,
I need more than fifteen minutes. Yeah yeah, m hmmm. Let's
stand and now see how Jesus goes with that in uh in this lesson to
show us what forgiveness really offers us and what it is all about it.
And the first says it is since unreality that makes forgiveness natural and holy holy
saying, a deep relief. Here you have it, a deep relief to
those who offer it, a quiet blessing where it is received. It does
not countenance illusions, but collect them lightly with a little laugh. Okay,
don't forget to smile. There's a little laugh, and gently, gently lays
them at the feet of truth. Gently we are lay them at the feet
of truth. And there and there, and there and there and there they
disappear entirely, they disappear. That is theny good news. You are in
a full recognition that your illusions of your own making disappear in that light you
experience. They disappear entirely. They disappear in his life. Forgiveness is the
only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world, the only
the only thought, the only idea. It sees here, it is they
are not thingness. It sees there are nothingness, and looks straight through that
thousand forms. And let's practice that now. You know, whatever you see
is that power of mind. You can look straight through it. It's really
just a hologram of reflections of light, nothing else. We're looking through that
into the light, through the thousand forms in which they may appear, may
appear. It looks on lies, but it is not deceived. It doesn't
heed the self accusing shrieks of sinners mad with guilt. They see it's the
guilt that drives the mind to madness and into that kind of thought system as
he reviewed it before, where guilt is real, where the sin is fixed
and unforgivable. No more. It looks on them with quiet eyes and merely
says to them, my brother, what you think is not the truth.
That's simple, okay, Now say that to your word, my brother,
word, what you think is not the truths. The strength of Baden is
its honesty, which is so uncorrupted that it's sees solutions as solutions. It's
sees solutions as solutions, not as truss It is because of this that it
becomes. He calls it the undeceiver in the face of lies. He calls
it the great restorer of the simple truth. By its ability to overlook what
is not there, it opens up the way to truth which has been blocked
by dreams of guilt. It opens up the way to truth which has been
blocked by dreams of guilt. Now, now are you free to follow in
the way your true forgiveness opens up to you. For if one brother has
received this gift of you, the door is open to yourself. And you
remember it was just three days ago, in less than one thirty one,
where he talked about you know that door, and you we are supposed to
open the door and actually see what is behind there. And we are seeing
that light of forgiveness behind the door, and recognize that door is truly wide
opening. There is a very simple way to find the door to drove forgiveness
and perceive it here it is open, wide in welcome. When you feel
that you attempted to accuse someone of sin in any form, to not here
an instruction. See that's an instruction. Do not allow your mind to dwell
on what you think he did. I'm supposed to not allow my mind to
dwell on what I think he did, for that is self deception, and
self deception is a form of death. It's an idea of death. Ask
instead, would I accuse myself of doing this? Okay, let's practice,
ask yourself, would I accuse myself of doing this? And now he gives
you. Then also you should think of a brother, of course, or
of anybody in your mind. And thus, when you see alternatives for choice
in terms that render choosing meaningful, and keep your mind as free of guilt
and pain as God himself intended it to be, and as it is in
truth. It is but lies that would contemn in truth is Now he comes
in with a new term, But that's a term really representing what we are
in truth. Say to me, innocence in truth is innocence. The only
thing there is inno sense is the only thing that is. Forgiveness stands between
illusions and the truth, between the world you see and that which lies beyond,
between the hell of guilt and Heaven's gath across the bridge you see.
Forgiveness is the bridge, a bridge as powerful as love, as God's love
which laid its blessing on it. Are all dreams of evil and of hatred
and the attack brought silently to truth. They are brought silently to truth.
They are not kept to swell and bluster and to terrify the foolish dreamer who
believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what
he thought he saw again was never there, was never there, And now
now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him. He doesn't
have to fight to save himself. And this is really my own and chesus
invitation to the world, to everyone who is still defending and holding up that
separation, in that righteousness of I'm right, and out there are the bad
guys, you know, like you know I'm talking here to all our presidents
and all our our politicians, you know myself as that bad trying to defend
a security and the peace here instead of going straight to heaven where it is
he doesn't We do not have to fight to save ourselves. He doesn't have
to kill the dragons. To kill the dragons, which he thought pursued him.
No need he erect the heavy walls of stone and iron, those he
thought would make him safe. He can remove the bunderous and heavy and useless
armor made for what to chain his mind to fear and misery? Wow,
to chain the mind to fear and misery. That's all that such a mindset
does that fights the evil out there. His step is light, and as
he lifts his foot to stride ahead, as star is left behind to point
the way to those who follow him. Forgiveness must be practiced, for the
word cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence.
There is no thought in all the world that leads to any understanding of
the laws it follows, nor dead thought, decapitalized God thought that it reflects.
It is as alien to the world as ea is your own reality,
and yet it joins your mind with the reality in you to day with practice
true forgiveness, that the time here it is of joining be no more delayed,
for we would meet with our reality in freedom and in peace. Our
practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers who will follow
us to the reality. We share with them that this may be accomplished.
Let us and hear instructions how we canna practice that today. Let us give
a quote of an hour twice today and spend it with the Guide again,
the true guide from out of time. Spend it with the Guide who understands
the meaning of forgiveness and was sent to us to teach. To teach it,
let us ask of him, let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Let us ask that of him. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
And then choose one brother as he will direct, and catalog his quote unquote.
Since as one by one they cross your mind, as one by one
they cross your mind, choose one brother as he will direct, and be
certain not to dwell on any one of them on any of those sins.
But realize that you're using his quote unquote offenses. But to save the world
from all ideas of sin, to save the word from all ideas of sin.
Briefly consider all the evil things you thought of him, and each time,
ask yourself, would I condemn myself for doing this? And see before
we had would I accuse myself for doing this? Now it is would I
condemn myself for doing this? Let him be freed. That's an action of
mind. Let him be freed from all the thoughts you had of sin in
him. And now now you are prepared for freedom. And if you have
been practicing thus fine willingness and honesty, you will begin to sense a lifting
up, a lightening of weight across your chest, a deep and certain feeling
of relief. We feel we're feeling now a sense of lifting up, a
lightening of weight across our chest, a deep and certain feeling of relief.
And the time remaining should be given to experiencing the escape from all the heavy
change chains you sought to lay upon your brother, but were laid actually upon
yourself. A saying forgiveness. We're gonna finish up this lesson now. Forgiveness
should be practiced through the day, for there will still be many times when
you forget its meaning and attack yourself. And when this occurs, allow your
mind to see through this ilusion, as you tell yourself, and you can
speak quietly for yourself after me. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Would I accuse myself of doing this?
Would I accuse myself of doing this? I will not lay this chain
upon myself. I will not lay this chain upon myself. And in everything
you do, remember no one is crucified alone, and yet no one can
enter heaven by himself. No one is crucified alone, and yet no one
can enter heaven by himself. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. I
thank you with all my heart for being here listening, tuning, in joining
with his mind, because this is an offer of Jesus Christ himself. His
teaching is love and forgiveness, isn't it? And we are here now to
practice and to lift that, to live up to it. And now it's
not a concept, it's an idea in my mind. I'm supposed to live
up to it. And the experience in its beneficence and its laugh, It's
peace. It offers me no thank you. Bye bye. You have been
listening to voice from Heaven live in the Miracle Sealing Center. Remember that God's
voice speaks to you all through the day. That God goes with you wherever
you go, and that God is the mind with which you think. God
bless us everyone,